The next edition of this puzzle, "Meet your match? Spot the difference #127," will be published on Oct. 6. Click/tap here for ...

A former executive in charge of international broadcasts at NHK who resigned after a Chinese staffer said the ...

Uneasiness among Japanese residents in China may accelerate a shift away from the country following a series of incidents ...

Toyota Motor Corp. said Friday its global production in August dropped 11.2 percent from a year earlier to 709,571 vehicles, ...

Red spider lilies are in full bloom and delighting visitors of Butsuryu-ji temple in the city of Uda, Nara Prefecture. The ...

A temple in South Korea that claimed ownership of a Buddha statue stolen from Japan will not oppose returning it, a source ...

Snack maker Yaokin, based in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, announced on September 24 that it will raise the price of "Umaibo" from 12 ...

Members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)'s Aso faction were passed off-the-books cash collected at fundraising ...

When the Italian writer Dacia Maraini visited Japan this June, her translator Noriko Mochizuki was there with her. Since ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between Sept. 14 ...

On September 22, the "Fude Matsuri (Brush Festival)" event was held in the town of Kumano, Hiroshima Prefecture, which boasts ...

The next edition of this puzzle, "Meet your match? Spot the difference #126," will be published on Sept. 29. Click/tap here ...